Student Affairs Program - Course Sequence
Required during first semester
- EDUC 500 Online Orientation - 0 credits
- UNIV LIB Information, Research, and Resources - 0 credits
First Year - Fall
- EHEA 501 The College and the Student - 3 credits
- EHEA 504 Student Services Administration - 3 credits
First Year - Spring
- EBIB 523 Christian Character Formation - 4 credits
- EHEA 502 Higher Education Finance: Strategy, Costs & Value - 3 credits
First Year - Summer
- EADM 515 Research Design - 3 credits
- EHEA 503 The Law & Governance of Higher Education - 3 credits
Second Year - Fall
- EDCS 530 Foundations of Biblically Based Education - 3 credits
- EFND 523 History & Contemporary Issues of American Higher Education -3 credits
Second Year - Spring
- EDCO 501 Strategic Planning & Program Evaluation - 3 credits
- ESCP 505 Psychology & Development of the Learner - 3 credits
Second Year - Summer
- EHEA 595 Professional Field Experience -6 credits
Total: 37 credits
Student Affairs Program - Course Descriptions
EADM 515 Research Design (3) Conceptual understanding of how to utilize research findings. Examines research-based principles of effective measurement, evaluation, and assessment strategies. Focuses on library skills, professional literature utilization and test evaluation-based decision-making.
EBIB 523 Christian Character Formation (4) Emphasizes the character qualities Jesus expected of his disciples—distinctive qualities of character that transcend good morality and that are typically unnatural to human nature. Propose educational strategies appropriate for home, school and church settings. Required for the Christian School Program; also approved for ACSI biblical studies credit.
EDCO 501/801 Strategic Planning & Program Evaluation (3) Examine strategic planning and the role of program evaluation in the planning-implementation-evaluation cycle to include the curriculum planning process. Topics include various theoretical and philosophical perspectives and alternative evaluation designs and related methodologies, including collaborative action research and issues related to design, measurement and utilization. Become an active collaborator in the evaluation process and gain the tools to judge the value of the evaluation. Offers important leadership preparation for designing an internal evaluation of a local program, contracting for an external evaluation at the district level or critically reviewing an evaluation report as a basis for making an administrative decision. Prepare an evaluation assessment related to a self-selected educational program in the area of concentration. EDCO 501 is offered concurrently with EDCO 801.
EDCS 530 Foundations of Biblically Based Education (3) Examines the verified influences that impact learning, including, but not restricted to, parental influence, instructional techniques, discipline procedures, home and community settings, educational expectations and curriculum. Develop, implement and evaluate plans for addressing your various spheres of influence.
EDUC 500 Online Orientation (0) Required during the first semester of enrollment in some programs; acclimates students to Blackboard, the platform off which online classes are launched.
EFND 523/723 History & Contemporary Issues of American Higher Education (3) Overview of American higher education from the colonial period to the present. Form a foundational understanding of higher education and the origins of contemporary practices and problems within the academy. Investigate diverse institutions such as land grant colleges, historically black colleges and universities, research institutions, liberal arts colleges, religious colleges and universities and access to higher education. Examine and discuss early innovators of higher education and their policies. EFND 523 is offered concurrently with EFND 723.
EHEA 501 The College and the Student (3) An examination of issues relevant to college students. Topics may include intellectual growth, moral development, values, career choice, psychosocial changes, and the role of extracurricular activities.
EHEA 502/802 Higher Education Finance: Strategy, Costs & Value (2) Examine the: 1) important particulars of higher education finance from administrative, consumer and societal perspectives; 2) cost of higher education from the consumer’s point of view in order to understand why and how people pay the price they do; 3) governmental, private and institutional aid and their affects upon admissions and retention of students; 4) fund accounting, sources of expenditures and sources of revenue; and 5) value and societal benefits of a college education in order to ascertain whether a college education is a good value. EHEA 502 is offered concurrently with EHEA 802.
EHEA 503/803 The Law & Governance of Higher Education (3) Provides historical and contemporary legal issues that have, and will continue to shape colleges and universities today. Discusses legal issues regarding the college and trustees, administrators and staff. Investigates the legal basis of higher education in the United States to include constitutional provisions and federal statues that influence higher education policy. Prepares emergent administrators for preventative law measures in an increasing litigious environment. EHEA 503 is offered concurrently with EHEA 803.
EHEA 504 Student Services Administration (3) An examination of the historical underpinnings of student affairs, the numerous departments under student affairs, the administrative interaction between student affairs and other university departments, and administrative theory relevant to the student affairs administrator.
EHEA 595 Professional Field Experience (6) An independent examination of the historical, legal, financial, and organizational literature relevant to the student’s professional field experience as a student affairs professional.
ESCP 505 Psychology & Development of the Learner (3) Study the process of human growth and developing patterns of behavior throughout the life span. Emphasizes the individual’s physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and spiritual growth; links what population school-police partnership will most likely encounter.
UNIV LIB Information Research & Resources (0) Non-credit, free of charge. Teaches basic competencies in the use of computer and related information technology research and resources, including use of the library. Enroll in the course in the first semester. Required of graduation. Pass/Fail.
